Health Education Games
The Blood Typing Game
The Blood Typing educational game and related reading material are based on the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was awarded for the discovery of human blood groups in 1901. The purpose of this educational game is to learn the basics about human blood types and blood typing, as well as understanding one reason for its importance - to be able to save lives performing safe blood transfusions. Another purpose is to offer a game experience that is challenging and fun!
What happens if you get a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type? Even though a patients own blood type is the first choice for blood transfusions, its not always available at the blood bank. Try to save some patients lives and learn about human blood types!
Malaria
The Mosquito and Parasite educational games and related reading, are based on the 1902 and 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The 1902 Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of the parasite causing malaria and for understanding that the Anoheles mosquito was involved in causing malaria.
The 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for the discovery of the parasite in human blood.
Mosquito Game: How is malaria transmitted to humans? What kind of mosquito is spreading malaria? With what chemical can you kill Malaria mosquitos? Can you mention a cheap and simple way to prevent mosquitoes from biting humans?
Take control of a mosquito and try to find a human to bite and draw blood from! In the mosquito game you stear a mosquito towards humans while you also have to avoid DDT, mosquito nets, buts and birds to suceed in your mission.
Parasite Game: What parasite causes Malaria? How is the parasite transmitted to humans? How does the parasite act inside the human body? Where in the boody does the parasite multiply? What can kill the parasites in the blood?
Take control of a parasite, try to find your way inside a human being, and multiply as fast as possible! In the Parasite game you are to guide a parasite through the blood vessels, meantime you must avoid colliding with antibodies and other immune cells. First guide the parasite to the liver where it could multiply, then guide it to a red blood cell where it can multiply again, before your mission is over.
For high score you have to be very skilled with the arrow buttons - it could be quite hard to stear the mosquito and the parasite in these games if you're not used to it.
The diabetic dog game
Although insulin doesn't cure diabetes, it's one of the biggest discoveries in medicine made in the 1920s. When it came, it was like a miracle. People with severe diabetes and only days left to live were saved. And as long as they kept getting their insulin, they could live an almost normal life.
In this game your dog has type-1 diabetes. This is a very serious disease. With proper treatment, however, your dog can live a happy life for many years. When we eat, the blood sugar level in our blood rises, and the hormone insulin is released into the blood stream to regulate the sugar level. A diabetic dog does not produce or properly use insulin and therefore has to get it through injections. Your mission is to take care of your dog and try to avoid letting him/her reach too high or too low levels of blood sugar - the more successful you are the more money you will get for which you can buy food and upgrade your dog's foodbowl or doghouse!
For instructions on how to play the game, click on the HELP button found at the bottom of the game window.
Nerve Signaling
The Nerve Signaling production is based on several Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine from 1906 until today awarded for discoveries related to nerve signaling.
How are nerve cells made up? How do nerves carry the signals that coordinate all the activities in our body? How has the research in neurosciences developed through the 2000th century?
The Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have rewarded several achievements that helped to reveal the mysterious complexities of the nervous system. The breakthroughs made by each of the Nobel Laureates below have provided us with a better understanding of how nerves are made up, and how they create and transmit information in the form of nerve impulses that monitor and co-ordinate all the activities in our bodies.
Science is only just beginning to understand the brain's remarkable form of software - the way it works as a whole to enable us to live and think - but an amazing series of scientific breakthroughs have given us insight into its hardware. Each of the Nobel Laureates who appear in this brief story has taken us further down the path towards understanding how nerves are made up and carry the signals that coordinate all the activities in our bodies.
Tuberculosis - Experiments & Discoveries Game
The Tuberculosis educational game and related reading, are based on the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was awarded for investigations and discoveries concerning the disease tuberculosis, "TB".
What causes the disease tuberculosis, TB? How did a scientist find out about TB in the 19th century? Koch developed several methods still used in science today - what is the "slide technique", "staining" and "plate technique"? What are "Koch's postulates"?
Robert Koch proved definitively that the dreaded disease tuberculosis is caused by specific bacteria. How did he do it?
Koch developed several methods for detecting the causes of infectious diseases that are still used today. Such as:
The slide technique - fixing bacteria onto thin glass slides.
Staining - adding dyes to make bacteria more visible.
The plate technique - obtaining pure cultures by isolating specific bacteria from a complex sample.
In this game you will try to repeat Koch's remarkable successes. Carry out your own experiments using Koch's methods and discover the bacteria causing tuberculosis. Rather than scoring points and doing things quickly, this game rewards figuring out what to do in the correct order to allow you to move on and reach the end!
For instructions on how to play the game, click on the HELP button found at the bottom of the game window.
Chicken Farm Game (Vitamin B1-game)
The Chicken Farm educational game and related reading are based on the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. No one had heard of vitamins until Christian Eijkman pointed out that a substance in rice skin was missing from the diet of beriberi patients, which was later discovered to be vitamin B1. This was the first time that an illness was linked with vitamin deficiency.
Why do we need vitamin B1? What food contains vitamin B1? What is the disease beriberi?
This fast-paced game relies on a keen knowledge of food containing vitamin B1 and good keyboard skills to save lives.
You have one minute to feed chickens suffering from beriberi with the correct food to stop them from dying. If you are too slow, or provide the wrong food, the chickens will collapse and die. Cure them quickly, and you could end up on the list as "the fastest feeder this month"!
For instructions on how to play the game, click on the HELP button found at the bottom of the game window.
The Blood Typing educational game and related reading material are based on the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was awarded for the discovery of human blood groups in 1901. The purpose of this educational game is to learn the basics about human blood types and blood typing, as well as understanding one reason for its importance - to be able to save lives performing safe blood transfusions. Another purpose is to offer a game experience that is challenging and fun!What happens if you get a blood transfusion with the wrong blood type? Even though a patients own blood type is the first choice for blood transfusions, its not always available at the blood bank. Try to save some patients lives and learn about human blood types!
Malaria
The Mosquito and Parasite educational games and related reading, are based on the 1902 and 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The 1902 Nobel Prize was awarded for the discovery of the parasite causing malaria and for understanding that the Anoheles mosquito was involved in causing malaria.The 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for the discovery of the parasite in human blood.
Mosquito Game: How is malaria transmitted to humans? What kind of mosquito is spreading malaria? With what chemical can you kill Malaria mosquitos? Can you mention a cheap and simple way to prevent mosquitoes from biting humans?
Take control of a mosquito and try to find a human to bite and draw blood from! In the mosquito game you stear a mosquito towards humans while you also have to avoid DDT, mosquito nets, buts and birds to suceed in your mission.
Parasite Game: What parasite causes Malaria? How is the parasite transmitted to humans? How does the parasite act inside the human body? Where in the boody does the parasite multiply? What can kill the parasites in the blood?
Take control of a parasite, try to find your way inside a human being, and multiply as fast as possible! In the Parasite game you are to guide a parasite through the blood vessels, meantime you must avoid colliding with antibodies and other immune cells. First guide the parasite to the liver where it could multiply, then guide it to a red blood cell where it can multiply again, before your mission is over.
For high score you have to be very skilled with the arrow buttons - it could be quite hard to stear the mosquito and the parasite in these games if you're not used to it.
The diabetic dog game
Although insulin doesn't cure diabetes, it's one of the biggest discoveries in medicine made in the 1920s. When it came, it was like a miracle. People with severe diabetes and only days left to live were saved. And as long as they kept getting their insulin, they could live an almost normal life.In this game your dog has type-1 diabetes. This is a very serious disease. With proper treatment, however, your dog can live a happy life for many years. When we eat, the blood sugar level in our blood rises, and the hormone insulin is released into the blood stream to regulate the sugar level. A diabetic dog does not produce or properly use insulin and therefore has to get it through injections. Your mission is to take care of your dog and try to avoid letting him/her reach too high or too low levels of blood sugar - the more successful you are the more money you will get for which you can buy food and upgrade your dog's foodbowl or doghouse!
For instructions on how to play the game, click on the HELP button found at the bottom of the game window.
Nerve Signaling
The Nerve Signaling production is based on several Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine from 1906 until today awarded for discoveries related to nerve signaling.How are nerve cells made up? How do nerves carry the signals that coordinate all the activities in our body? How has the research in neurosciences developed through the 2000th century?
The Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine have rewarded several achievements that helped to reveal the mysterious complexities of the nervous system. The breakthroughs made by each of the Nobel Laureates below have provided us with a better understanding of how nerves are made up, and how they create and transmit information in the form of nerve impulses that monitor and co-ordinate all the activities in our bodies.
Science is only just beginning to understand the brain's remarkable form of software - the way it works as a whole to enable us to live and think - but an amazing series of scientific breakthroughs have given us insight into its hardware. Each of the Nobel Laureates who appear in this brief story has taken us further down the path towards understanding how nerves are made up and carry the signals that coordinate all the activities in our bodies.
Tuberculosis - Experiments & Discoveries Game
The Tuberculosis educational game and related reading, are based on the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was awarded for investigations and discoveries concerning the disease tuberculosis, "TB".What causes the disease tuberculosis, TB? How did a scientist find out about TB in the 19th century? Koch developed several methods still used in science today - what is the "slide technique", "staining" and "plate technique"? What are "Koch's postulates"?
Robert Koch proved definitively that the dreaded disease tuberculosis is caused by specific bacteria. How did he do it?
Koch developed several methods for detecting the causes of infectious diseases that are still used today. Such as:
The slide technique - fixing bacteria onto thin glass slides.
Staining - adding dyes to make bacteria more visible.
The plate technique - obtaining pure cultures by isolating specific bacteria from a complex sample.
In this game you will try to repeat Koch's remarkable successes. Carry out your own experiments using Koch's methods and discover the bacteria causing tuberculosis. Rather than scoring points and doing things quickly, this game rewards figuring out what to do in the correct order to allow you to move on and reach the end!
For instructions on how to play the game, click on the HELP button found at the bottom of the game window.
Chicken Farm Game (Vitamin B1-game)
The Chicken Farm educational game and related reading are based on the 1929 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. No one had heard of vitamins until Christian Eijkman pointed out that a substance in rice skin was missing from the diet of beriberi patients, which was later discovered to be vitamin B1. This was the first time that an illness was linked with vitamin deficiency.Why do we need vitamin B1? What food contains vitamin B1? What is the disease beriberi?
This fast-paced game relies on a keen knowledge of food containing vitamin B1 and good keyboard skills to save lives.
You have one minute to feed chickens suffering from beriberi with the correct food to stop them from dying. If you are too slow, or provide the wrong food, the chickens will collapse and die. Cure them quickly, and you could end up on the list as "the fastest feeder this month"!
For instructions on how to play the game, click on the HELP button found at the bottom of the game window.